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...“No one’s campaign is over,” said Kevin Madden, senior partner at consultancy Penta and a former Mitt Romney 2012 campaign official. “Both DeSantis and Haley still have an argument for continuing on....
...“Have you ever fought [with your husband],” asks Kevin McCarthy, the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, explaining his relationship with Trump in a Lunch with the FT....
...More than eight in 10 Republican voters now support candidates — Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy — who would sever aid to Ukraine....
...Even the legislature’s most senior Republicans — including Kevin McCarthy, then the incoming House Speaker, and Mitch McConnell, the party’s leader in the Senate — denounced the outgoing president for stoking...
...Sternfels has touted $700mn of investment in risk and compliance, including new procedures for vetting clients, under his leadership and that of his predecessor Kevin Sneader, but some senior partners have...
...Kevin Madden, a Republican strategist at Penta, a consultancy in Washington, said what was “puzzling” to many about the message coming from the DeSantis campaign was that the “biggest opening” against Trump...
...and Friends of Ron DeSantis....
...The biggest spenders include Ron DeSantis, who has spent more than $355,000, and Donald Trump’s campaign team, which has spent nearly $36,000 in total....
...Ron DeSantis, Florida’s governor and likely Republican presidential candidate, quickly signed it into law, representing a significant escalation in states’ war on abortion — Florida is one of the most populous...
...To this, add the stunning ineptness of Trump’s main challenger, Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida....
...Christie is not only trailing Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor, in the 538.com polling average, but is also behind Haley, the former US ambassador to the UN and former South Carolina governor, who has...
...Florida governor and likely presidential candidate Ron DeSantis has said further support for Ukraine is not in America’s “vital national interests”, in a clear break with congressional Republicans that underscores...
...“Man who called Biden ‘Mr Magoo’ in Aug 2019 is still at it,” Ron Klain, Biden’s former White House chief of staff, shot back at Axelrod on X, referring to an elderly, stubborn cartoon character with vision...
...But Haley’s 15 per cent means she has leapt above Florida governor Ron DeSantis....
...Kevin Johnson, a 60-year-old Lutheran pastor, said: “We were leaning towards DeSantis [but] he seems to be failing a little bit. I still support him [but] the Pence speech was excellent....
...Trump has already tested out jeering nicknames for him — from “Ron DeSanctimonious” to “Meatball Ron” — and this week used his Truth Social platform to attack Fox News for “promoting” DeSantis “so hard”....
...While most members of the House Freedom Caucus ultimately agreed to back Kevin McCarthy’s bid for Speaker of the House of Representatives earlier this year, they did so only after securing concessions including...
...Ron DeSantis has broken the fundraising record for a US governor’s campaign, in a sign that the Florida Republican is tapping a powerful donor network as he eyes a potential run for the White House in 2024...
...She has warned new US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy that the Treasury will need to take “extraordinary measures” to fulfil its payments, adding that the US could be in danger of defaulting on its debt as...
...“The divisive 2020 election fractured energy politics,” said Kevin Book, managing director of ClearView Energy Partners, a Washington consultancy....
...Ron DeSantis, the Republican Florida governor, told Fox & Friends that even after the deal “our country will still be careening towards bankruptcy”....
...The next most popular candidate, Florida governor Ron DeSantis, trailed Trump by a wide margin, garnering the support of only 16 per cent of those surveyed....
...courtney.weaver@ft.com...
...Reporting by James Politi, Courtney Weaver and Lauren Fedor in Washington and James Fontanella-Khan, Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson and Sujeet Indap in New York...
...On Monday night, the Republican National Committee named the eight participants in the debate including Florida governor Ron DeSantis, Trump’s former vice-president Mike Pence and fund manager Vivek Ramaswamy...
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